Together with Owens, we explore anger’s purpose in liberation. Rather than denying and feeling guilty over our anger, or policing and demonizing the anger of another, how can we allow it to alert us to imbalance and injustice?
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Anjali shares how in order to truly support liberatory work and movements, we must unlearn, otherwise, we will continue to create harm. In recognizing our illusions and perceptions, we are able to ensure that our impact and intentions are in alignment.
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Explore the pervasiveness of debt, our temporal and spatial understandings of prisons, and the technological dimensions of surveillance and incarceration. We ask how we can resist the accession of predictive policing and what can digital carceral infrastructure reveal about the state’s growing surveillance apparatus?
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Penniman guides us through an adaptation of a Haitian prayer from her maternal lineage that honors the forces of nature and our ancestors. Leah’s gracious offering invites us to open ourselves to the elements of the Earth that shape our lives.
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Mariame joins us for an expansive conversation on Transformative Justice, community accountability, criminalization of survivors, and freedom on the horizon.
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brontë reminds us that “Black wellness is the antithesis to state violence” (Mark Anthony Johnson) and during these times of great transformation and tension, we must prioritize Black wellness and communal care.
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With a historical analysis of slavery and plantation labor, Tricia’s work prompts us to consider what is stolen from those among us who cannot rest under capitalism, laying the groundwork for deep inquiry into the emergent possibilities of “DreamSpace.”
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Many of us are feeling pulled in this time, towards grief, towards urgency...towards feelings of helplessness. This week we invite you to shatter these repetitions and take a moment of intentional slowness to ask: How can I decompose violence in this life? Are urgency and intentionality compatible? What are the vessels that will carry us through these troubled times?
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We discuss parenting and caring in the Anthropocene, the connection between tourism and militarism, Guåhan’s layered history and his most recent book of eco-poetry Habitat Threshold, which intimately explores ancestry, ecological collapse and the ongoing legacy of capitalism, imperialism and colonization.
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Starhawk’s call to bring together tools of spiritual empowerment with activism, asks us to critically examine systems of control and domination and our responses to them – including areas where we may be giving our power away unknowingly to so-called authority figures and/or systems and where sources of spiritual power may have been forcibly removed.
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Explore the notion of “timefulness” and healing our relationship with time, the marvel of mountain-building, the necessity of multigenerational spaces, mass extinction events of the geologic past, change as constant, and the brilliant complexity of Earth’s systems.
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As we listen to what Joshua Kahn, BJ Star, and Michael Storm share with us, we wonder: How can anger serve us in times of transformation? What is the value in challenging ourselves to be a part of what is not perfect? How can exercising our power be a just necessity?
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Ayana and Lauren begin by discussing the necessity defense in context to the climate crisis. Other topics discussed include “critical energy infrastructure” felonies, how the oil and gas industry subverts democracy, digital surveillance and the importance of community solidarity in grassroots activism.
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Harvey gives us a map of mystical teachings to help us navigate the dark night of the soul and to emerge empowered.
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Teju discusses how gentrification originates through the calculated and supremacist devaluation of place, its environmental impacts, and urbanization and urban futures in response to climate and economic migration and changes.
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Lyla June gifts us with a poem that rides with the rushing current of Creation and beckons us to wade into the ever-moving stream of life. Allow Lyla’s poem to wash over you, to uplift your capacity to find strength, forgiveness and connection in times of adversity.
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Jacqui reminds us that we must strategically address the needs of our communities; when we work to uplift those at the bottom - we all rise.
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With a global market in free fall, a rising climate activism movement, and the uncertainty of elections on the horizon, this episode tackles a set of essential, timely questions: How has the fracking boom radically transformed communities, ecologies, and life in states across the country? Why are oil prices crashing and how does this reflect an industry in debt, teetering on the brink of collapse?
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Kailea offers a poetry reading woven with simple movements to reawaken our inseparable connection to all of Creation. This offering honors the hard-working mothers and caregivers who provide care so generously, and who are so deserving of moments to cultivate wellness.
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Alnoor invites us into a guided conversation on neoliberal capitalism, the global economic system and how we can work ourselves out of it. Topics include Wetiko mind virus, Anarchy, the root causes of poverty, the dangers of technocracy, and more.
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